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VESSEL 0F ENA E LED IRON WARE. No. 290.598. Patented Decf18, 1883.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM F. -NIEDRINGHAUS, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

VE SSEL OF ENAMELED IRON-WARE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 290,598, dated December 18, 1883.

Application filed September 19, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM F.'N1:ED- RINGHAUS, of St. Louis, Missouri, have made a new and useful Improvement in Basins of Enameled Ironare, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the annexed drawings, mak ing part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a view in perspective of a was sel having the improvement; and Figs. 2to 6, details upon an enlarged scale, Fig. 2 being a View of that portion in a developed form of the vessel with which the improvement is immediately associated; Fig. 3, a section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4, a view of the part shown in Fig. 2, but having the rim formed thereon; Fig. 5, a section on the line 5 5 of Fig. 4; and Fig. 6, a view similar to that of Fig. 5, but showing the enamel.

The same letters of reference denote the same parts.

This invention is an improved mode of constructing wash-basins and similar vessels, so that they can be hung up.

The flange a of the vessel A is perforated at a. The perforation, however, is at such a distance from the edge a of the flange as to enable a bead, a Figs. 4, 5, 6, to be formed from the metal intervening between the edge and perforation, and the perforation is so located, and the bead of such size, as to bring the inner side, a, of the bead in immediate proximity to the perforation. The bead then materially strengthens the vessel opposite the perforation, and the strain,when the vessel is hung upon a nail, (which passes through the perforation,) is sustained in part by the bead.

The bead is formed, as shown, upon the under side of the VesseLflange, enabling the vessel to be hung closer to the wall.

I claim- An enameled sheet-iron basin having a hori zontal flange at the top, and provided with the perforation a in said flange, in proximity to the beaded edge thereof, for enabling the 4 

